Where a person obtains any pension, gratuity, or allowance under this Act by any false representation or false evidence, or by personation, or by malingering or feigning disease or infirmity, or by maiming or injuring himself, or causing himself to be maimed or injured, or otherwise producing disease or infirmity, or by any other fraudulent conduct, such person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding [F1twenty pounds][F2level 2 on the standard scale] or to imprisonment, . . . F3 for a period not exceeding three months, and also to forfeit the pension, gratuity, or allowance obtained.
Offences against this section may be prosecuted, and penalties recovered, in a summary manner.
Textual Amendments
F1 “£50” substituted (E.W.)(S.) for “twenty pounds” by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Law Act 1977 (c 45), s. 31(5)-(9) and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 289C (4)-(8)
F2Words “level 2 on the standard scale” substituted (E.W.S.) for “£50” by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G
F3Words omitted by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1948 (c. 58), s. 1(2), (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21), s. 221(2) and (N.I.) Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1953 (c. 14), s. 1(2)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 9 extended by the Constabulary (Ireland) Act 1922 (c. 55), s. 1(6)